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The famously curious musician and bandleader will celebrate his milestone birthday with a career-spanning Carnegie Hall concert.

My seventh-grade son recently wrote a U.S. History paper extolling the virtues of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. “It ended the Great Depression,” he wrote with great certainty. He’s only 12 and parroting what the history texts and his teachers told him. That’s his excuse. What’s Ken Burns’?

NONFICTION: An informative biography of Alexis De Tocqueville, whose analysis of liberty, equality and democracy has remained influential for almost 200 years. "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of

Populist Christianity expresses an instinctive mistrust of our overclass—a mistrust that is well deserved.

From Harold and Belle’s to Uncle Darrow’s, a history of Creole food in Los Angeles

Two young Black cousins on the hunt for a missing man collide with an uprising, in Brenda Woods’s “When Winter Robeson Came.”

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."With this remark -- arrogant, dismissive, contemptuous -- in his debate with Glenn Youngkin, Terry McAuliffe committed a historic

Shop all books by Pat Buchanan “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” With this remark — arrogant, dismissive, contemptuous — in his debate with Glenn Youngkin, Terry McAuliffe committed a historic gaffe. From that debate forward, his poll numbers steadily sank until McAuliffe lost his lead, and with it, the election. And going down to defeat, McAuliffe dragged with him his fellow Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney ...

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

The message to the Democratic Party Virginia sent was this: “You can indulge the crazies in your party, but if the American people come to believe you share their ideas and intend to implement them, we are going to relieve you of control of Congress in 2022 and of the White House in 2024. Rely upon it.”